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9-letter words containing a, b, i

  • bucranium — (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.
  • bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
  • buildable — suitable for building on
  • bulgarian — Bulgarian means belonging or relating to Bulgaria, or to its people, language, or culture.
  • bulk-mail — to mail as bulk mail.
  • bullarium — a collection of papal bulls.
  • bungaloid — resembling a bungalow or bungalows or characterized by bungalows or structures resembling bungalows
  • burkinabé — of or relating to Burkina Faso or its inhabitants
  • bursarial — of, relating to, or paid by a bursar or bursary
  • burundian — of or relating to Burundi or its inhabitants
  • busticate — to break
  • busy-wait — (programming)   To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
  • butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
  • butt-dial — Also, butt dial. a call made in this way: Sorry, it must have been a butt-dial.
  • by a hair — by a very slight margin, only just
  • bypassing — a road enabling motorists to avoid a city or other heavy traffic points or to drive around an obstruction.
  • byzantine — Byzantine means related to or connected with the Byzantine Empire.
  • byzantium — an ancient Greek city on the Bosporus: founded about 660 bc; rebuilt by Constantine I in 330 ad and called Constantinople; present-day Istanbul
  • caballine — pertaining to a horse
  • caballing — a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
  • cabbalism — cabala.
  • cabbalist — cabala.
  • cabdriver — a taxi driver
  • cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
  • cabinetry — cabinets collectively
  • cabinmate — a person with whom one shares a cabin
  • cable tie — a plastic strip with serrations on one end that lock inside an opening on the other end, used to bind things together, especially wires: Wrap all of the cords behind your computer with a cable tie. Officers secured the suspect’s hands with cable ties when they apprehended him.
  • cablelaid — noting a rope formed of three plain-laid ropes twisted together in a left-handed direction; hawser-laid.
  • cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
  • cage bird — a pet bird kept in a cage
  • cagebirds — Plural form of cagebird.
  • calabrian — of or relating to Calabria or its inhabitants
  • calibered — the diameter of something of circular section, especially that of the inside of a tube: a pipe of three-inch caliber.
  • calibrate — If you calibrate an instrument or tool, you mark or adjust it so that you can use it to measure something accurately.
  • cambering — a slight arching, upward curve, or convexity, as of the deck of a ship.
  • cambiform — resembling a cambium
  • cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
  • cambridge — city in E Mass., across the Charles River from Boston: pop. 101,000
  • cannibals — Plural form of cannibal.
  • cantabile — (to be performed) in a singing style, i.e. flowingly and melodiously
  • cantabria — a province and autonomous community in N Spain
  • carabiner — in mountain climbing, an oval metal ring with a snap link used to fasten a rope to the piton
  • carbamide — urea.
  • carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
  • carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
  • carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
  • carbineer — (formerly) a soldier equipped with a carbine
  • carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
  • carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
  • carbonari — a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification
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